TIAS Event: Sexual Values in the Nordics and Beyond

As a part of the Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) and following on from the framework research project ‘Vice and Virtue in the Nordic and Germanic Countries’, this workshop invites participants to reflect on the concept of sexual values as not predetermined. We aim to weave connections between disciplines to contribute towards a better understanding of the relationship between sexualities, practices, representations and imaginaries in the Nordic societies and beyond.

Programme

09.45 Welcome coffee

10:00 Introduction

10:05 Panel 1 Media and objectification (Chair: Aymeric Pantet, MSCA-TIES Fellow)

10:05-10:25 What Women Want: Representations of single women in Nordic media - Sofia Wanström,
Postdoctoral Researcher, Åbo Akademi

10:25-10:45 Changing Representations of Sexual Violations in Finland and Sweden: Media Discussion on
Sexual Violence and Harassment on the Ferries - Klara Arnberg, University Lecturer, Stockholm
University and Affiliated Researcher, Södertörn University & Riikka Taavetti, University Lecturer,
University of Turku

10:45-11:05 Selfies and self-objectification: On how sexual values came to dominate discussions on selfies -
Kaisu Hynnä-Granberg, TIAS Postdoctoral Fellow
 

11:05-11:20 Q&A
11:20-11:30 Break

11:30 Panel 2 Gender and Literature (Chair: Ranjana Saha, MSCA-TIES Fellow)

11:30-11.50 Sexual Values in the Popular Romance Genre - Elina Valovirta, University Lecturer,
University of Turku

11.50-12:10 Sexual Values of the Russian Women at the Fronts of the First World War and the Russian Civil
War: Challenges to the Official Discourse - Olga Simonova, TIAS Collegium Fellow

12:10-12:25 Q&A
12:25-14:00 Lunch (at own cost)

14:00 Panel 3 Philosophy and spirituality (Chair: Joona Räsänen, MSCA-TIES Fellow)

14:00-14:20 ‘A Colossal Soul’ and the Pleasure of Mysticism. Spiritual (-ist) Sexualities and Corporeal
Spiritualities (Swedenborg, Emerson, Spiritualism) - Mateusz Kucab, Doctoral Researcher, Jagiellonian
University

14:20-14.40 “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church”: Sexual values among observant
Christians in Scandinavia - Frédérique Harry, Associate Professor, Sorbonne University

14.40-15:00 Normalizing Sexual Extremism - Jani Sinokki, Grant Researcher, University of Turku & Tiia
Sudenkaarne, Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Helsinki

15:00-15:15 Q&A
15:15-15.30 Coffee

15.30-17.00 Keynote Lecture by Susanna Paasonen, Professor, University of Turku

17:00 Closing remarks